"Jaldhar H. Vyas" wrote: > > On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, Matthew Eaton wrote: > > > Package: imap > > Version: 4.7-1 > > > > With the new imapd 4.7, it no longer authenticates correctly. All the > > other services still work fine, but imap 4.7 no longer authenticates > > users, all logins are failures. > > > > Let me know if there's anything else I can try. > > > > Running the latest tator on an i586 (2.2.13) > > Matt > > > > I'm Ccing Marcin because he has the exact same problem. The thing is I > have the exact same setup as the both of you and I'm not getting this > problem. Matt do you also have an /etc/cram-md5.pwd file? If so are the > permissions 0400/root/root? To both of you, I ask that you do an strace of > the imapd process while it is attempting to authenticate and send me the > output. Meanwhile I'll do some more research on this.
When I had this problem, I read the relevant docs ;). Removing the /etc/cram-md5.pwd file caused authentication to work in the old (insecure) way. A better solution is to add the appropriate users to this file. HTH, Stuart.
